Work Area Participant Roles

Each participant is given a set of access rights for the work area. You can set access rights by assigning one of the predefined roles — Administrator, Leader, Team Member, Observer, or No Access — or you can customize the access rights of each user by assigning a predefined role and then adjusting individual permissions as needed.

Work Area Administrator

Assigning the Administrator role gives the participant Full control, which turns on the following permissions:

Work Area / Folder Security	Document Security	Component Security
Full control	Full control	Full control
Change permissions	Change permissions	Create Class Instances
Create subfolders	Create	Delete Class Instances
Delete	Delete	Query Class Instances
Read	Read	Modify Class Instances
Write	Write
	Change Workflow State
	File Read
	File Write
	Free

Work Area Leader

Assigning the Leader role gives the participant the following permissions:

Work Area / Folder Security	Document Security	Component Security
Create subfolders	Create	Create Class Instances
Delete	Delete	Query Class Instances
Read	Read	Modify Class Instances
Write	Write
	Change Workflow State
	File Read
	File Write

Work Area Team Member

Assigning the Team Member role gives the participant the following permissions:

Work Area / Folder Security	Document Security	Component Security
Create subfolders	Create	Query Class Instances
Read	Read
Write	Write
	Change Workflow State
	File Read
	File Write

Work Area Observer

Assigning the Observer role gives the participant the following permissions:

Work Area / Folder Security	Document Security	Component Security
Read	Read	Query Class Instances
	File Read

No Access

Assign the No Access role if you want to keep a user in the participants list, but prevent them from having any access to the work area.

Work Area / Folder Security	Document Security	Component Security
No access	No access	Class - No Access

Custom

The Custom role is created when you assign one of the predefined roles to a participant, and then change some of the default permissions for that role.